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JJLehto 
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 Posted: October 06 2010 at 20:44 |
 TheProgtologist wrote:
To be on the Prog Metal Team the initiate has to sit inside a pentagram and drink the blood of a virgin while sitting on a severed goats head and members of the PMT chant the lyrics to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and throw feces at you.
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Gah! I do that every Sunday!
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Epignosis
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Posted: October 06 2010 at 16:15 |
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To be on the Eclectic team, you just have to do a bunch of different things. We're not particular.
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TheProgtologist
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Joined: May 23 2005
Location: Baltimore,Md US
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Posted: October 06 2010 at 15:55 |
To be on the Prog Metal Team the initiate has to sit inside a pentagram and drink the blood of a virgin while sitting on a severed goats head and members of the PMT chant the lyrics to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and throw feces at you.
I don't even want to go into what it takes to be an Admin here.
Edited by TheProgtologist - October 06 2010 at 15:56
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toroddfuglesteg
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Posted: October 06 2010 at 10:04 |
You are spot on, AtomicCrimsonRush. 
Arcane-Beautiful: There are so many free legal download albums now within all genres so there is no excuse not to branch out and experience Prog Rock to it's full extent. My brain feeds of all the weird experiences I get through this website and you are really only kind of harming yourself by not taking full advantage of what we have to offer, music wise. The Senmuth downloads is as easy as eating a cake. Choose the album, enter the codes, download, unrar and listen to it. Then review it. Other noteworthy free downloads is the Logos albums and the Herba L Hameli albums + the Tempano album. Just to mention a few goodies.
Edited by toroddfuglesteg - October 06 2010 at 10:20
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: October 06 2010 at 08:20 |
You have to branch out as a reviewer and review other countries artists and there are some incredible ones out there such as Banco, Bubu, bACAMARTE and other B words...... Magma are great - and respected here so review them well, PFM are excellent and worth reviewing, japanese prog such as Angelin in Heavy Syrup could do with a review and obscurities such as Ota Petrina. Review all those bands albums and you get my respect...
Of course make sure you review the legendary 70s bands such as ELP Yes, VDGG, Hawkwind, JTull and Genesis. The more you review the more you ar enoticed - thats how I became prog reviewer and eventually a collab - but it it took a huge effirt and a love for prog, not a desire for a status - people take notice if you are obsessed.... they will ask you, you dont need to ask them, and in fact you shouldn't ask at all.
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Snow Dog
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Joined: March 23 2005
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Posted: October 06 2010 at 06:01 |
I can't speak Italian but I love PFM. Whats your point?
Ok just downloaded an album. Nothing odd about it....MP3's zipped in a rar file. Am playing it now.
Edited by Snow Dog - October 06 2010 at 06:20
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arcane-beautiful
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Posted: October 06 2010 at 03:27 |
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i tried to download some Senmuth albums, but they are all in Russian (a language I can't speak), and are an odd file
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Snow Dog
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Posted: October 06 2010 at 02:01 |
moshkito wrote:
JJLehto wrote:
Become a big member of the site. Write a lot, (and good) reviews, contribute to musical discussions sincerely and intelligently. All that fun stuff.
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Damn ,.... "intelligently" ... that would be characterrizing some of the troll comments from some of your "colaborators" on the board I think ... they really contribute to the musical discussions!
And sincerity has nothing to do with it ... specially when some of you "collaborators" are too lazy to even reead and determine if there is something to the material or not! |
The problem is one tends to reply intelligently to intelligent posts. Idiotic replies are for idiotic posts only.
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CCVP
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Joined: September 15 2007
Location: Vitória, Brasil
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Posted: October 05 2010 at 20:32 |
moshkito wrote:
JJLehto wrote:
Become a big member of the site. Write a lot, (and good) reviews, contribute to musical discussions sincerely and intelligently. All that fun stuff.
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Damn ,.... "intelligently" ... that would be characterrizing some of the troll comments from some of your "colaborators" on the board I think ... they really contribute to the musical discussions!
And sincerity has nothing to do with it ... specially when some of you "collaborators" are too lazy to even reead and determine if there is something to the material or not! |
Somebody in the Prog Intelligence Agency is charging his banhammer. . . .
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JJLehto
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Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Tallahassee, FL
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Posted: October 05 2010 at 20:19 |
moshkito wrote:
JJLehto wrote:
Become a big member of the site. Write a lot, (and good) reviews, contribute to musical discussions sincerely and intelligently. All that fun stuff.
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Damn ,.... "intelligently" ... that would be characterrizing some of the troll comments from some of your "colaborators" on the board I think ... they really contribute to the musical discussions!
And sincerity has nothing to do with it ... specially when some of you "collaborators" are too lazy to even reead and determine if there is something to the material or not! |
I'm not a collab.  I did used to troll, but I'm tired of that now.
Edited by JJLehto - October 05 2010 at 20:23
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moshkito
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Posted: October 05 2010 at 20:12 |
JJLehto wrote:
Become a big member of the site. Write a lot, (and good) reviews, contribute to musical discussions sincerely and intelligently. All that fun stuff.
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Damn ,.... "intelligently" ... that would be characterrizing some of the troll comments from some of your "colaborators" on the board I think ... they really contribute to the musical discussions!
And sincerity has nothing to do with it ... specially when some of you "collaborators" are too lazy to even reead and determine if there is something to the material or not!
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toroddfuglesteg
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Posted: October 05 2010 at 09:05 |
Try to move outside your comfort zone. Download a couple of Senmuth albums (free) and test your reactions to those. That's what this place is all about.
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arcane-beautiful
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Posted: October 05 2010 at 08:32 |
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i know what you mean. I tend to review some of my favourites, and the I never really see an album as bad anyway, their is always something postive to be said about music in general
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Marty McFly
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Posted: September 29 2010 at 14:17 |
Finnforest wrote:
Well, to give just one bit of personal advise, which you can ignore if you wish, you might want to consider laying off the 5-star rating. It is supposed to be a very rarely used rating.....Just looking briefly it appears you're using it about 90% of the time. (just a guesstimate)
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Jim, I'm one of these prolific reviewers, who give quite high rating. The other one I remember is Tszirmay, with even higher average ratings then I have. At first, I used to give mostly 5 stars, because I've started with great albums. My first was, well, Dark Side. Then I explored various genres and my ratings were lower. I've began to be more critical towards the music and recently, I even edited my old ratings to remove half (or so) of my 5 star ratings, leaving only those who really deserve it. I use 5-star rating seldom these days. But 4 stars, it's different. It's my most used rating from various reasons.
As shown here, my average ratings are somewhere around 3.7 - 4.1 
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arcane-beautiful
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Posted: September 28 2010 at 08:21 |
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the last comment was quite sarcastic and i apologize (haha). Yea, I can see what you mean. I review them and tell the honest truth, and I dont become too political and criticial, because really you could point out all the bad things, but it's the good things I look for
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Chris S
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Posted: September 28 2010 at 05:40 |
someone_else wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
Well, to give just one bit of personal advise, which you can ignore if you wish, you might want to consider laying off the 5-star rating. It is supposed to be a very rarely used rating.....Just looking briefly it appears you're using it about 90% of the time. (just a guesstimate)
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This ought to be so, but I can imagine that this rating is used more often than it was intended to be, just because most reviewers have more of their favourite albums in their collections. If I will have the time to write more reviews and I would choose to review Close to the Edge, Wish You Were Here, Foxtrot, Köhntarkosz, Part the Second, Danger Money and Playing the Fool first, I would have a vast majority of 5-star ratings in my list and draw the attention of some watchful collabs. I will be worried more when a lot of 1-star ratings appear in someone's review list. |
If you get paid to do a job then you would review most often than not across the entire prog spectrum and the ratings would be much more varied. If you are not paid to do something and review because of your passion for the music then expect more 5 or 4 star ratings, because you are doing what youy enjoy and therefore not in it for the money
Just my take on it. Fanboyism will pushout the 5 star ratings after 30-50 reviews and after that fizzle out or struggle to make a 100 words reviews that merit 2 stars becuase where is the motivation. I am not referring to reviewers who have pushed well above a 100 reviews but even then there will be exceptions.
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someone_else
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Posted: September 28 2010 at 05:16 |
Finnforest wrote:
Well, to give just one bit of personal advise, which you can ignore if you wish, you might want to consider laying off the 5-star rating. It is supposed to be a very rarely used rating.....Just looking briefly it appears you're using it about 90% of the time. (just a guesstimate)
Good luck! |
This ought to be so, but I can imagine that this rating is used more often than it was intended to be, just because most reviewers have more of their favourite albums in their collections. If I will have the time to write more reviews and I would choose to review Close to the Edge, Wish You Were Here, Foxtrot, Köhntarkosz, Part the Second, Danger Money and Playing the Fool first, I would have a vast majority of 5-star ratings in my list and draw the attention of some watchful collabs. I will be worried more when a lot of 1-star ratings appear in someone's review list.
Edited by someone_else - September 28 2010 at 05:18
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tuxon
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Posted: September 28 2010 at 03:28 |
I know I know I know. (little Supertramp quote thrown in for good measure)
sometimes I'm a bit oversensitive
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Finnforest
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Posted: September 27 2010 at 20:22 |
Most everyone who posted was trying to help, Tux. Especially Olav. Not sure what you're smokin' tonight 
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tuxon
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Posted: September 27 2010 at 19:38 |
you insensitive bostords. A guy walks into a bar, than the guy has a percussion, that doesn't make him a drummer. still the effort put in should weigh for something.
this is silly and uncalled for, please behave, and if people want to be colaborating don't discourage them, let them collaborate with what they have to offer,
no need t give them titles, just make sure they understand that their input is meaningfull and appreciated at the least.
Edited by tuxon - September 27 2010 at 19:40
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